Guild Wars 2

wvw: Found that nerfed thief sustain tools like condi removals and overall increase in damage for all classes made it harder to roam against zergs. Sure you can pick and kill one target easier but I die alot easier too even on valk armor on. I switched to cheese condi dires for the first time in history and it’s more sustainable and survivable in wvw.

Hi Anet, I want free xfers to get out of T8 :p

Similar, i can log in but then get stuck in the map loading screen then get dcd I will check back later.

I am since about 30 minutes ago. I got dcd while roaming and can’t connect now having same issues as you. Is this another ddos by an attention seeking idiot?

I use Shadow’s embrace + withdraw it seems more viable now

on my pewpew toon as I tried last night I tried running marksmanship, skirmishing, and wilderness survival on full ascended zerks. I can’t dent any other class except for some eles, rangers, and thieves. Rapidfire and auto can dent during the time when “read the wind” was newly introduced about a year and a half ago.

Now:
3k-6k rapidfire (instead of 8-10k pewpew fire rapid when they are out of endurance)

1.1k crits on auto 1200-1500 range on a necro/cheese mesmer, (before this update pewpew could hit heavy armor tank guards/ warriors for 1.8k crits per auto on 1200-1500)

2.5-2.7k damage auto on a glass or valk thief used to be 2.8-3k.

T_T.

heard thieves are getting the LB with the 5th skill having 1500 shadow step range

Osu.6307:

TakeCare.3182:

How anyone could possibly justify 3k auto attacks from 1500 range is beyond me. With Fire and Air, one auto attack can take out 1/3-1/4 of your total HP. Simply broken.

I can get closer to 4K fully buffed. Just sayin…

I think you can get it even above that if you interrupt with moment of clarity lol. never thought i’d see the day people would QQ about pewpew rangers like people did with thieves. On a side note, we’ve been sniping people down even before the buffs happened and it’s ez as hell to play pewpew just maintain distance and don’t stand around like a kitten statue. gets boring after awhile so playing thief alot instead. Personally think those huge vuln stacks on rapid fire need to go though. And the pewpew didn’t need another buff this coming update, thought it was fine as it is. Only way to counter this is if you do find a way to get reflects and then close. If they swoop away they can’t switch immediately to LB and that’s the opening.

Johje Holan.4607:

If you’re considering deleting all your toons to transfer. And if you’re going to buy HoT.

Then instead just use the free core game that comes with HoT to join a higher tier server and keep your old account on your old server.

Actually a good idea.

Journal Entry of a SEA/EU player in T8:

Log in, see no one, go SW. getting bored in SW now back wvw roam for 30 mins and finally see some enemies, 1-5 of them, they’re the same faces I see everyday in the same matchups. I will have better luck finding the lochness monster. Gonna be moving out of T8 soon.

Just play the NA/EU version since you’re from Taiwan. There are huge guilds of TW who play in NA servers.

Pay to win game is a staple in some Chinese made or managed MMO games, I know because I played alot of them. Hell I’ve been to actual events auctioning off really rare armor pieces and there are people willing to drop the $$$. Good thing GW2 doesn’t allow P2W as the equipment difference between exotics and legendary/ascended is not that much. If Anet put this in the gemstore and put a cheap price for it, it would be unfair for the players who grinded for a legendaries. And who cares btw, we aren’t affected by it.

Shoot me an invite:

IGN: Richter Edgeworth
Playstyle: WvW PVE PVP
Server: Devona’s Rest.
Exp With thief: Burst ganking. Perma stealth trolling. Soloing objectives in WvW

Need some confirmation on this fellow thief players:

So let me get this straight. Shadow’s rejuvenation and Blind on stealth are both buffed but are put in the grandmaster line and I can’t have them both now. CnD damage will be reduced in PVE which means WvW too? If that’s the case, reduce CnD damage, remove blind on stealth and shadow’s rejuvenation together it’s either no blind but more init regen and HP regen, I like it on DD but I think on D/P I can reset fights fast and stealth more + I still get the blinds from shadow shot and BP while regaining more init and HP for moar stealth. hmmm… D/P it is for SA. For usual D/D 2 6 6 or 0 6 6 2 builds will need more tweaking it seems.

Resilience of shadows or meld with shadows/shadow’s embrace/buffed shadow’s rejuvenation on D/P seems really good and better than before.

Been here trolling since day 1. It’s very laid back now, so we could use a little more action. Any casual wvw people/guild can join us!!

We are unsung heroes for noobs you know. Thieves are walking noob traps, they can kill noob easily especially if they don’t know how this class works. As for being unsung heroes, we help you alot by killing you until you learn how to counter us or counter the other classes as well.

It’s all good for PVE but how about WvW and PvP. Does anet plan to change the power and ferocity stat too? Normally with burst power builds it’s not just power we use, it’s power and ferocity. Power build equipment will take up 2 stats: power and ferocity. If they’re buffing conditions, the condis will have more dps likely as much output as burst specs plus alot of tankiness if you have Dire/apothecary, condis get the best of both worlds, high total damage output, high survivability while outlasting burst damage specs.

have 15k-18k hp 3 hits from a glass necro and you’re dead.

One word: blobs

T8 is generally empty and boring especially in off hours (EU, SEA, OC) when I play. It wasn’t this empty in the same tier more than a year ago. ET was pretty active in NA last week but only lasted for a few hours. DR and SF might have less than 15 total players running around loosely in all maps at one time in off hours but I rarely see groups of ET.

Being with DR for so long and taking long breaks in between. Before some of our old and new big wvw guilds transferred to SoS, FA, or TC, I had the pleasure to play as high as T3 due to the bandwagon. It was too blobby and not fun in the higher tiers and the NA time queues were not fun. I think the sweet spot for me is T5/T6 if there are no bandwagon servers stuck in those tiers during the seasons like GoM and DR last year.

LOL never thought I’d see the day when a thief complains about fighting an LB ranger.

skullmount.1758:

Out of curiosity, did any guilds on Darkhaven get a Dev?

I know DH has a dev there for a long time now. Knyghtblade is his name I think haha

Seth Chadwick.5317:

Hello everyone. I am proud to announce that I am the newest adopted member of “Light of Honor [Lite]” on my beloved Sorrows Furnace. We may not be the largest server, but that does not preclude us from being the best server (biasedly speaking).

SF blob of bronze hahaha

40+? wait till u see SBI this season. 24/7 queue blobs

Make scoring every few hours instead of every 13 mins. This will definitely solve that coverage problem a bit.

so John I heard you are in DR. But you haven’t met one of the troll master of DR yet >:)

To sum up wvw in T4 and above = BLOBLOBLOBLOBLOB. Happens in some servers in the lower tiers as well but the frequency of blobs and zerging in these upper tiers is just insane.

Whole guilds have been moving.. not moving servers, but moving to other games and I can attest to this. :p We need some revolutionary changes in this current RvRvR setup. I honestly love the community/server I am in right now because I have made alot of friends here and the company of friends is great. But WvWvW has got to change it’s becoming too stale.

easy, don’t buy them)

Suggest to make it 2 way. Not just benefit defenders but benefit attackers as well.

Necro.6432:

Spica.9308:

the sabotage of our communication system

FBI did it.

NSA actually. They’ve been scouring our TS in hopes of getting info on terrorists. They’ve been at it all week.

I see DB as the biggest threat for S3.*

OC guilds looking for a new home come look as up at DR, we have a fun non-toxic community looking to push for the win against very good competition with better OC coverage (DB, CD, YB, SBI, IoJ) in the coming S3, If you’re looking for a challenge against those odds, send me a message and I will hook you up with our accommodating server admins.

Instigating 113 ballista lines, 102 ballista lines, Alpha Golem factory in a tower, trolling enemy supply, necro zergs, thief zergs, glass ranger gangs. Name it we instigate it.

DmD is looking for more hands to join in battle for S3, if you’re looking for a fun, active, laid back atmosphere guild, DmD is your choice. DR is also looking to shore up our OC base for S3. And if you are looking for a new home and good fun, DmD and DR is your answer. You can message gilf for more info.

Jeremiah Natusch.4958:

Sanctum, we have one commander during SEA time that regularly drops 5 guild catas for paper structures, just because he can. It’s pretty common. XD

It’s not natusch I swear!

Jeknar.6184:

FarmingPanda.4359:

wow, where have you all been? First time you’ve seen 5 guild catapults for an undefended paper tower? Log on more during SEA timezone and you’ll see 5 guild catapults for EVERY paper tower, 7 for EVERY reinforced tower, 10 for EVERY fortified tower 6 of EVERY paper keeps, 9 for EVERY reinforced keeps, 15 for EVERY fortified keep — defended or not. I guarantee you will bleed from you nipples every time you try to defend.

DR’s credit card for buying guilds may be limitless, this scrub has limitless credit card for his sieges and his full collection of legendaries.

We are bunch of tryhards.

This post taste salty…

Yiz definitely his face is bathed in salt. That attack on DR came out of nowhere lol. I was defending that random CD group against YB here a bit. Then he decides to attack DR and be salty. That post belongs in the PVF forums. Go post them circle arguments that lead to nowhere there.)

No one over-estimating yaks but DB/CD are the biggest threat in silver imo.

If I can like your posts a thousand times I will. And I am right there are alot of intelligent suggestions from our GW2 players. keep it coming!

So there’s this one MMO I used to play where it was Race vs Race vs Race and scheduled wars in one map will happen every six or eight hours where you should hit and destroy a very high HP objective of the other race. The only downside of that game was there was no upscaling and downscaling for balance and the usual grinding for level and gear, then the everywhere including PVE areas were basically also PK areas where high levelled bullies from other races can PK you while you level or grind for $$. A good side is that there is no scoring and there is a reward for winning that particular war also you can have fights basically anytime and anywhere without having to worry much about ppt also gets rid of coverage gaps.

Maybe we can derive some ideas from this model and make it more applicable, more useful, and more exciting for gw2.

A huge PVE – like connected maps sounds exciting definitely but on a smaller scale :P few maps for capping and some maps for clashes. so like 5 different maps for example and one map in the middle with few or no objectives where all realm’s maps can be accessed from.)

kinda hard to put 5 evenly matched servers, it will likely depend on the PVE population turn out.

Afya.5842:

Ain’t CD (and YB) always famous for their siege?

Not CD But YB definitely is famous for over-sieging and use of siege everywhere including open field. So I found it a bit funny about them talking about a random guild group using 5x guild catas.

Keep them coming. All of the ideas I’m reading are interesting. I get your point aeolus, PPT does not equate to good skills which alot of people certainly believe lmao. And your ideas are definitely out of the box, I like it.

So they said they aren’t working on anything in wvw but they have a wvw team o_O horay for wvw. Still gonna try and be positive tho, post your ideas.

So Need Your “Thinking Out of the Box” ideas and suggestions to revolutionize WvW!

So first thing let’s list what we currently have (The box). I will edit my post everytime somebody adds to this:

1. Scoring by PPT every few mins.
2. 24/7 scoring.
3. 3 realms per weekly match up.
4. 4 maps in wvw (5 if you count OS) and 3 identical BL maps.
5. Glicko rankings determining matchups.
6. 24 realms.
7. Use of siege and supply.
8. Objective capture and upgrade for score.
11. Map queues. (eotm supposedly solves this. nope.)
12. Dependence on coverage and population.
13. wvw ranks

Now post your ideas:

example: Maybe more maps and realms per match up instead of 3? Get rid of those 3 identical BL maps and make them unique? Maybe lessen/merge the realms? Or we can have realm alliances in a single team? Maybe a world boss objective where teams would fight for the chance to kill it?

I know a lot of the players here have really smart and ingenious ideas (especially to counter the current idea of PPT and coverage) so glad post them here and make everybody and Anet see them.

it’s just random rich guild groups doing what they want. ive seen them take paper bay building 5-6 guild catas.

Tiffany.8576:

Sanctum.7938:

Tiffany.8576:

CD has been trying hard all day dropping 5 guild catas for paper towers, lolz… then not even retaining them for the tick.

I think there is exaggeration or misinformation here. I’ve never seen any CD group drop 5 catas on a paper tower. It’s possible some random guild group is doing that but it’s not the core group of WvW players in CD.

Was no exaggeration on my part. Today, I literally saw 5x guild catas at QL and Durios which were taken and re-capped by us without a tick even passing. I honestly just struggled to understand the mentality of whoever was commanding because it literally was a pure waste of resources for no points gain. If CD are pushing for T2, some would do well to understand some basic mechanics a bit better first. :P

If it wasn’t any of the core people, fair enough. Was just rather amusing to see.

I lol’d at this. Yaks complaining about siege.

This is what I always tell people during seasons: jump on a fallen enemy 20x before he WPs will get you 5 AP after you complete 5 tiers.

Hi Devs, Some of our guilds in DR will be sending you invites. Come join us @ DR community for a fun-filled and intense S3 in T3/T4 in silver.

like how anet listens & interacts more and more with players. alot more than before